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Baley Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Балей, ‘Nunatak Baley’ \'nu-na-tak ba-'ley\) is the rocky hill rising to 632 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress on the north side of
Aitkenhead Glacier Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north o ...
, on
Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the so ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee a ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. The nunatak is named after the settlement of Baley in Northwestern Bulgaria.


Location

Baley Nunatak is located at , which is 4.8 km northwest of Hitar Petar Nunatak, 6 km north-northwest of Mount Roberts and 11 km southwest of
Mount Bradley Mount Bradley () is a pyramidal peak, high, at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau, surmounting Znepole Ice Piedmont to the east and Dreatin Glacier to the southwest. The peak is southwest of Mount Reece in the south ...
. German-British mapping in 1996.


Maps


Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.


References


Baley Nunatak.
SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


Notes


External links


Baley Nunatak.
Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub